The Instructional Leadership Program is designed to provide experienced teachers and other educators with opportunities to acquire or refine specific leadership skills. The program is intended to demonstrate that highly skilled techers can function as school leaders without abandoning their classrooms. Allowing teachers to play a key part in…

A model for predicting the impact of retrenchment on public education was tested for validity, using data from an inner-city high school confronted with revenue loss. Results show that budget cuts are more likely to exert a negative impact on disadvantaged students than on students from middle-class homes. (AOS)

How schools weather budget reductions shows the difference between effective and less effective school systems. Policymakers' response to reductions depends on an array of factors: general economic conditions, access to data about future trends, community expectations and "myths," past records of school effectiveness, local education…